Word: bahrein
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...state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This is a big hint that it is not too late for King Saud to line up with his fellow sovereigns. At week's end Amman reported that the oil-rich Persian Gulf sheiks of Kuwait and Bahrein were "considering" joining...
...miles from Kenya to Aden, to pick up the heavy vehicles and weapons stored there for them (thereby saving the cost of a new base in Kenya). The new force is designed primarily to deal with trouble or brush-fire rebellions in such oil-rich domains as Bahrein and Kuwait or in the string of other British protectorates to whose defense Britain is committed by treaty. An attack on Britain's Baghdad Pact allies-Turkey, Iran. Iraq and Pakistan-would require a far wider response than Aden could provide...
Veils & Cadillacs. In other areas, there is uncomfortable compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public...
...Bahrein, British army spokesmen quoted captured Omani rebel troops as saying that 400 of the Imam's recruits had been trained for seven months near Dammam in Saudi Arabia. British officers on the spot identified captured rebel grenades as U.S.-made, implied strongly that they, like the recruits, came from Saudi Arabia. Also picked up in the rubble: two British naval cannon dated 1646. The U.S.-made grenades, along with the rebel prisoners' admission that they were trained in Saudi Arabia, may be used to counter Arab charges of "aggression" by Britain if the Arabs...
Denunciation. Late in the week, as the fighting stepped up in the orange and pomegranate groves outside of the village of Firq, a company of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry arrived in Bahrein from the British base at Nairobi. Firq finally fell after a concentrated attack by Trucial Oman Scouts, covered by machine gunners and mortar barrages from the Cameronians and Hussars...